pickI enjoyed the half featuring Pia more - perhaps because it was more linear? But overall enjoyed the book. Spare writing with overlapping clues. Would recommend
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The Certainties | 
pickI enjoyed the half featuring Pia more - perhaps because it was more linear? But overall enjoyed the book. Spare writing with overlapping clues. Would recommend
so-soThe Certainties is a beautifully written story, but unfortunately, I never felt fully engaged in it and never gained a real sense of who Pia is. I also wasn‘t a fan of the professor‘s underage (he was 12, she was 17), incestuous “relationship” with his cousin (in which she was trying to “understand her power” and he was okay with it whether it was “overt manipulation or encounters of the more romantic kind”). 3⭐️ for my #DoubleSpin pick for April.
pickAs @Lindy noted, this is a heavy read. Melancholic and spare. Beautiful and fragmented images formed from the writing. It reminded me a little bit of Nicole Krauss' The History of Love.
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pickWar can change you utterly. You can become completely unlike your previous self. Powerless. Stateless. A refugee. Our only certainty is our mortality. In this understated and mournful novel, readers are asked to bear witness. My full review of this #audiobook: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-certainties-by-aislinn-hunter.html?...
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This was late June, when the roads out of Paris were a slow parade of cars, horses, carts & bicycles & the occasional French soldier riding against the tide on a motorcycle, or walking dejectedly toward some town he'd left when he was a different man. Everyone was barking out news and all the news was contradictory. We are losing the war! We are winning the war! Though the German planes overhead […] told the true story.
(Internet photo)
Next up in my #ShadowGiller reading
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Picked up more books from the library! 3 #CanLit titles for the #ShadowGiller reading and Universe of Two has a lovely chunk to it!
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